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Chatbots and Robot Process Automation

Chatbots soon will be the technology of choice on the front lines of customer service of many companies. Gartner predicts that intelligent automation will manage 85 percent of businesses’ customer relationships by 2020.

McKinsey estimates that Chatbots can save companies 31% in Customer Service and Sales Representative costs, on average.

To be even more useful and to provide intelligent customer experience, Chatbots can be connected to RPA (Robot Process Automation). The connection of these technologies can open much more possibilities for companies to automate their processes and provide a better customer experience.

The role of RPA in these scenarios is to provide customer back-end data to the chatbot enabling him to answer more sophisticated requests. While conversing to the user, the chatbot collects the necessary data, can structure the data and triggers the execution if the RPA tasks. This saves time for both, the client, that can communicate in a natural manner and the back-office employees that can concentrate on more value adding tasks.

Cognitive intelligent chatbots can recognize the customer’s emotional state and respond accordingly. The RPA background processes can be connected to multiple back-end systems to provide solutions to the clients issue.

Use cases

Use cases for the successful combination of chatbots and RPA can not only be found in Customer Service and Sales. Further examples are: